Funny story about kite surfing and sea weed. Yesterday while lounging out at Orient, wind was whipping, and Orient Beach was invaded by the sea weed. One of the surfers, got himself into some trouble, and came back in without his board, (which he lost somewhere in the Bay, and swam back to shore with his kite kind of loose also. I didn't see him actually come in...so no clue how he got to shore, but when his kite hit the shore, a couple of guys ran to hold it down. Guessing the slack he had from himself to the say must have been at least 80 to hundred feet. his kite dragged a ton of weed with it, and when he finally was trying to ''fold'' his kite up, it took him well over a half hour to just clear the lines from seaweed. he must've had wht looked like hundreds of pounds of seaweed all over his lines. The entire time he was trying to get the seaweed off the lines, his eyes were also glued to the water, hoping to see his lost board floating. Thank God, he wasn't hurt during this mishap, but seeing the ''moving sargassum on the shore, attached to the kite, and the look of ''what do i do now'' on his face was kind of comical.
First day yesterday, we didn't even venture into the water...but just stayed vegging on the lounge chair, and watching our favorite view in the world. Even with all the sea weed, still my ''happy place''.
Hoping by the time we get back tomorrow, the weed will be gone. One can hope.
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